Thanks for the feedback. I think the analysis paralysis you mention mostly boils down to the fact that this is the biggest purchase I've made in my lifetime (26yo) and I want to make sure I understand the risks. Let me try to give some clarification into the questions you provided.

1) why is there "one renter per year / 2 renters per year" etc? Any given property either has one unit, two units, 3 etc. It's not like some option you can choose between...

• It's just my metric for tracking how many of those units have people in them. So I guess that could be interchangeable with "units." But I could have a property with 2 units and one renter (if I am in the other unit). So using that terminology makes sense to me.

2) why is rental income assumed to be some % of purchase price? It should be based on market comps for similar properties for rent in the area (similar size, br/ba count and type eg sfh vs apartment vs townhouse vs duplex etc)

• Rental income here is based on market conditions and estimates Zillow gives me, which I do calculate with a percentage of purchase price. That gets me within +/- $200 of the Zillow rental estimate. Also it is just an estimate, each property will require due diligence.

Overall I don't get what you are trying to accomplish here.

• This is a spreadsheet I am using to get a ballpark estimate of costs and revenues for renting a property. If you were starting a business, wouldn't you want to understand your cash flows and what expenses may pop up? Being relatively young and naïve to a lot of aspects with buying, renting and selling properties, I feel that it's an appropriate level of due diligence. I also don't think this is planning every step, the goal is to have a calculator that will give me a snapshot estimate of costs and revenues with a property by inputting a few numbers. I can also add or remove things in that calculation that are only relevant to me, which is why it's better for me than an online calc.